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Nicholas Panagakos
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
(Phone: 202/755-3680)
Peter Waller
Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif.
(Phone: 415/965-5091)
SUMMARY
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upper atmosphere and ionosphere down to an altitude of about
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NASA believes the study of weather patterns
provide clues to
planets--and on Venus in particular--can
the mysteries of our own weather system.
Mixing
Many factors complicate Earth's meteorology.
cloud cover,
of oceanic and continental air masses, partial
make our atmosphere
axial tilt, and rapid planet rotation
difficult to study.
it has a basic
But Venus is simpler to study because
a very slow
atmosphere that is 95 per cent carbon dioxide,
of Venus), very
rotation (243 Earth davs equal one rotation
little tilt to its axis and no oceans.
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* What are the stabilizing and destabilizing
of Mars?
* Did liquid water ever flow on the surface
on Venus
* Where is the water that may have been
originally?
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THE MISSION
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SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
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SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS
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SPACECRAFT
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